Healthcare professionals may recommend tapering off antidepressants, like Lexapro, if you experience unwanted side effects, need to switch medications, or have reached the end of a short-term ...

The claim by Elon Musk in an X post that antidepressants were "overprescribed" in the U.S. is inaccurate according to a psychiatrist contacted by Newsweek. "[Elon Musk] is only partly right ...

A senator at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearing questioned him about his false suggestions that antidepressants were partly responsible for the rise in school shootings. Christina ...

In 2024, Kennedy speculated that antidepressant use could explain the rise of school shootings, despite a lack of scientific evidence to support such claims. “There’s no time in American ...

Kennedy, Jr. suggested antidepressant drugs may be as addictive as heroin — a claim contradicted by research. Kennedy's comment at Wednesday's hearing was one of a number of controversial claims ...

Despite being a first-line treatment for adolescent depression and anxiety, antidepressant drugs appear to have questionable efficacy and carry an increased risk of adverse effects in this population.

A variety of antidotes have been reported to treat SSRI-induced sexual dysfunction effectively; however, virtually all the data on these agents are derived from open case reports and case series ...

A new Cochrane review confirms that antidepressants effectively reduce symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) under trial conditions, although there is limited data on long-term usage.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee for health secretary, repeatedly confused Medicare and Medicaid. He also ...

As winter drags on with its frigid weather and afternoon sunsets, I tend to start feeling that capital-letters ...